History of Thermal Press International, Inc.

Dan Young, president and founder of Thermal Press International, Inc. started Young Technologies in Santa Clara, California in the mid 80's building fixtures and contract manufacturing. Outgrowing this facility he moved the company to Fremont, CA when a customer approached him with a unique problem. It involved staking ESD shields to communications devices. The customer was finding there were limitations to ultrasonic assembly of the shielding to the housing, due to the tight physical part constraints. It was at this time that Dan came up with the original Thermal Press design for plastics assembly. Prior to this design there was not a thermal press machine built for heat staking or even the name. From these early machines he engineered High-capacity systems incorporating Bosch pallet transfer lines to increase throughput. At the same time he developed machines with CCD vision systems for specialty heatsealing applications where controlled pressure and temperature were required to assemble front panel displays and LCDs to PCBs.

As time moved on he moved the facility to Livermore, CA and changed the name to Thermal Press International, Inc. reflecting the original equipment he was designing and building.

As various industries discovered the advantages of thermal plastic heatstaking and heatsealing; Thermalpress machines are found in use for plastic bonding, heat seal of films, foils, and membranes, welding, joining of assemblies, hot knife degating and cutting, insertion of threaded metal inserts, pressure assembly, fusing of various plastics and other materials, insertion, plastic adhesive bonding with activated adhesives, connectors for LCD & PCB connector applications, and more.

The following is a sampling of some of the industries served:

Automotive, industrial, medical, dental, electrical, appliance, fixtures, electronics, house-wares, aerospace, cellular, communications, memory module units, sporting equipment, telecommunications, semiconductor, PCB connector, LCD connectors, and more. Just about every industry uses some form of assemblies.

A few of the products assembled with this process include: heat staking automotive parts, telephones, cell phones, Internet phone, computer equipment, disk drives, memory modules, seal SIMM cards, PCMCIA card modules, and micro miniature assemblies. Just about every conceivable item can take advantage of this Plastic Staking / Sealing Assembling Technology.

Thermal Press International Machines are found all over the world. Their reliability and repeatability are world renown. While there might be imitators of his original designs, there is only one you can Trust, Thermal Press International